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Egypt: Christian teens get five years prison for mocking Islam

Feb 25, 2016 11:59 pm By Robert Spencer

They were actually making fun of the Islamic State’s execution videos. But even though everyone knows that the Islamic State has absolutely nothing to do with Islam, they got prison sentences anyway.

This kind of thing will be in the U.S. before too long, as people with the intellectual honesty and respect for dissent that is possessed today by the likes of Nathan Lean will hand out stiff sentences for “Islamophobia.”

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“Egypt sentences 4 Coptic teenagers for contempt of Islam,” Associated Press, February 25, 2016 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

CAIRO: An Egyptian lawyer says a court in the country’s south has convicted four Coptic teenagers of contempt for Islam after they appeared in a video mocking Muslim prayers.

Three were sentenced to five years in prison each while the fourth was referred to a juvenile facility for being under the age of 18. His sentence was not announced.

Maher Naguib, who represents the teenagers, says they are high school students in the southern province of Minya. They haven’t been detained and didn’t appear in court for the trial.

Naguib says Thursday’s ruling is “unbelievable … the maximum sentence” when they should only have been “punished with a fine.”

In the video, one student is seen kneeling on the ground and enacting the Muslim prayer while others stand behind him, laughing.

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  1. Don Spilman says

    Feb 26, 2016 at 12:19 am

    When enough people finally come to realize what Islam actually is it will be ridiculed into the dustbin of history.

    • Jack says

      Feb 26, 2016 at 3:01 am

      As a Christian I believe this will take the power of God, several Old Testament prophets prophesied about these Vile people living in the latter days. Persia is mentioned as having and using Fiery Darts as you probably know Iran’s ancient name was Persia and back then they didn’t have a weapon that would cause a prophet to call it a Fiery Dart but a Nuclear Missile was probably what the prophet was shown considering the vast amount of devastation. If you research the Battle of Tours where Charles Martel (The Hammer) defeated a Muslim hordes a decisive battle where the future of Europe was at stake, if Martel hadn’t won this battle there would be no America or no free America. Martel won this battle despite great odds against him, the numbers of untrained men, opposed to many, many seasoned Islamic soldiers on horseback. The Christian of that era believed and wrote about God performing a miracle, I believe it had to be. I didn’t even mention one more battle that took place in Vienna. Tours was in the late 700s and Vienna was in the early 1600s if my memory is correct. Today the Martel’s hands are tied , the so-called leaders are acting as Muslims, several countries in Europe have made a hate crime to criticize Islam

      • Max Payne says

        Feb 27, 2016 at 2:14 am

        You speak the truth my dearest,our Leaders have sold us out to the children of the bond woman,God will surely defeat these vile people pretty soon.
        As for those western leaders like Angela Merkel,David Cameron; Barak Obama(the demon president),hell awaits them at the end of their stinking lives.
        We have to keep praying to God because the anti-Christ has started his work through those vile and satanic people.

    • Ken Olson says

      Feb 26, 2016 at 1:01 pm

      From your post to God’s ear.

  2. islam :- the religion of idiots says

    Feb 26, 2016 at 12:52 am

    This video and sentance should be pushed worldwide …….

    • Salome says

      Feb 26, 2016 at 2:12 am

      No. Can’t publish the video. Someone might storm a US embassy and kill the ambassador.

  3. Shane Webster says

    Feb 26, 2016 at 1:18 am

    Crime is not to mocking islam as it mocks everything else; God, life,the intellect

    • Shane Webster says

      Feb 26, 2016 at 1:23 am

      it should read ; Crime is not to mock islam as it mocks everything else…typo error in the first post I’ll be more careful next time

  4. dlbrand says

    Feb 26, 2016 at 2:19 am

    “CAIRO: An Egyptian lawyer says a court in the country’s south has convicted four Coptic teenagers of contempt for Islam after they appeared in a video mocking Muslim prayers.”

    Fruits from the vine of “Moderate Islam”.

  5. Jay Boo says

    Feb 26, 2016 at 2:47 am

    Islam is nothing but Muhammad’s waste, uncouth and full of strife.

    Jesus said, “I am the way and the truth and the life”

  6. concernd canadian says

    Feb 26, 2016 at 6:09 am

    I hope Trump gets in and starts calling these guys out.

    Canadas Prime Minister wont.

    Hes determined to pander to terrorists.

    Undoing everything the conservatives built up in 10 years.

    • Max Payne says

      Feb 27, 2016 at 2:16 am

      I strongly agree with you.

  7. Brenda Buruma says

    Feb 26, 2016 at 8:12 am

    I can’t believe what’s happening in Europe, the ‘no-go’ zones, the rapes, the ‘grooming’, the Jews fleeing the European countries because of the assaults on them from the refugees.. If I’m just an average Canadian citizen and can see this, then why can’t our leaders see this? What is happening there will happen here.
    Our immigration leader just announced that our immigrants are Canadian citizens and will not be sent back to their country should they plan or commit a terrorist attack here. What is the logic behind that?
    Our Prime Minister had refugees flown in, couldn’t get them here fast enough and they weren’t from refugee camps. A Canadian choir of school children welcomed them with an Arabic song that mentioned Mohammed. In my area we now have Sudanese refugees.
    Why such empathy for Muslims? Why isn’t the West fighting for the safety of the Christian Arabs? Why are the countries of this world opening their arms to middle easterners yet no one opened their doors to the Jews that were released from the concentration camps?

    • Max Payne says

      Feb 27, 2016 at 2:23 am

      The messenger’s of wickedness are the fore-runners of the anti-Christ and they are being backed by satanic western traitors(leaders).
      This is the time for us to arise and fight them till they return to the dirty holes they came out from.
      We need to pray till we tire out and of course the guys cannot stand the power of God because they are of the devil their master.

    • robert says

      Mar 4, 2016 at 3:12 pm

      i strongly agree with the postings of brenda buruma and micky oberman. the jerks tredeau and mccallam are forgetting the immediate needs at home(canada) they are forgetting that phrase-charity begins at home-they are going to infect our country with a string of mosqes from victoria to st johns and god only knows how many new terriosts we will get. shame on all involved with this decision. trump has the right idea.

  8. Just A Concerned Citizen says

    Feb 26, 2016 at 8:35 am

    Just read this in the local Arabic language ragsheet here in Bahrain. Funny enough, the fact that they were Copts didn’t seem to be worth mentioning in their version of the story. All that seemed to matter to the Egyptian court was that these kids were “mocking” Islamic prayer.

  9. Angemon says

    Feb 26, 2016 at 11:04 am

    Three were sentenced to five years in prison each while the fourth was referred to a juvenile facility for being under the age of 18. His sentence was not announced.

    Let’s hope they can appeal.

  10. ismael says

    Feb 26, 2016 at 12:18 pm

    https://islamreponse.wordpress.com/2016/02/21/temoignages-sur-mahomet/

  11. anthony says

    Feb 26, 2016 at 9:35 pm

    I think that we have to understand what the egyptian court doing is merely mirroring what the prophet mo did during his lifetime where he killed his critics ( re sira and hadits ), so much for the prophet for all humanity, bunch of BS. islam is weak and allah needs his creation to defend him ha ha

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